Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francesco told his customers. "They're all alike. All in bad shape. I wonder, how could the authorities let this happen? But I can't make no distinguish . . ." Patiently, month after month, Francesco mailed out packages of food in clothing. Sometimes he sent cash-"whatever we can spare...
Director Max Nosseck didn't spare the blank cartridges, but the action is still dull and stereotyped. Roughly every five minutes, the beleaguered comrades draw up into a photogenic little group to pop away at the omnipresent Red hordes. The American battle tactics are about as clever as those of General Braddock during the Indian Wars, but the band gets through anyway...
...beds, your husband may disappear without a trace. Engineers will vanish from the cabs of speeding trains, pilots from their planes. Those left behind will run frantically through the streets, meaning and tearing their hair." By this point, the crowd had reached a state of frenzied despair. "Oh Jesus spare me," screamed a white-haired old man. Several women in the fourth row were looking at a train schedule to see how soon they could leave town...
...attack abated; cargo planes dropped food and ammunition into the 23rd's position, while U.N. fighters clawed Red positions with rockets and machine guns. At dusk the Chinese came in again. The 23rd's ammunition ran low. G.I.s combed the glove compartments of jeeps for spare cartridges. When the Chinese assaulted a French-held hill, the Frenchmen threw them back with a bayonet charge...
...play. But Producer Irwin and Director Ralph Nelson have not borrowed a single episode from the play and novel. They prefer to concentrate on the basic characters, the locale (San Francisco) and the period (early 1900s). Since the program started, there has been only one major cast change. A spare kinescope (television recording), kept handy in case one of the principals should be taken ill, has never been used...